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XBMC Live 9.04 Babylon Beta1!

Apr 24, 2009
Team XBMC
Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 9.04 Babylon b1 As in the previous releases I need to anticipate that NVIDIA and ATI/AMD users may have to struggle to have a working setup, but that’s a limitation of the restricted drivers not being tolerant...
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XBMC 9.04 (Babylon) Beta 1 released

Apr 23, 2009
Team XBMC
Hot on the heals of the Alpha 1 release, and some 350 code fixes later, the first (and only?) Beta release of XBMC Media Center 9.04 (codename: Babylon) is now available. New in this Beta 1 release is support for PPC (PowerPC) processors in XBMC for Mac under Mac OS X...
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XBMC needs you (internationalization)!

Apr 8, 2009
Team XBMC
For the upcoming release of XBMC 9.04 Babylon, we really need to get the following languages up to date or if you can translate into a language not currently supported by XBMC it would be great. There are two files that needs translations, XBMC language file and the...
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XBMC 9.04 (Babylon) Alpha 1 released

Apr 5, 2009
Team XBMC
Just a quick note to let you all know that Alpha 1 builds of XBMC 9.04 are now available. New in this release, among many things, is experimental hardware acceleration on Linux via VDPAU for recent NVIDIA graphics chipsets care of motd2k, reworked internal path system...
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Interview with Jonathan at brave little meme

Mar 7, 2009
Team XBMC
Giuliano Maciocci has posted an interview with our own Jonathan Marshall over at brave little meme . Q: Let’s talk a little about XBMC itself. What would you say separates it from other media centre and HTPC software? JM: The biggest thing for me are that it’s...
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Upgrade System from XBMC Live?

Mar 3, 2009
Team XBMC
Have you ever wanted to upgrade your system from your couch, not being forced to SSH in on your XBMC Live and do the long whinded sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade process? I have, and finally after some troublesome python learning I finally made a...
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It’s time to test XBMC Live 8.10.2 Beta1

Feb 27, 2009
Team XBMC
Time has come for a new XBMC Live release: XBMC Live 8.10.2b1 This BETA release has to be considered as a total fresh start, since not only it is based on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10.2), but also because I used a fresh, updated installation of the build tool. It also marks...
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XBMC interview on FLOSS Weekly

Feb 22, 2009
Team XBMC
Our very own Scott Davilla and Jonathan Marshall were recently interviewed by Leo Laporte and Randall Schwartz for the show FLOSS Weekly on TWiT.tv The recorded show is now available for download, or for streaming from https://twit.tv/floss57 , so pop over there and...
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Changes to paths: What it means for scripts and plugins

Feb 10, 2009
Team XBMC
As a follow up to my last post , scripters and plugin writers should be aware of the best practises for accessing files under python: 1. Don’t use the old Q:, P:, T:, U:, Z: paths. Replace these with their special:// counterparts below. 2. Use xbmc.translatePath() to...
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Change in the internal path structures

Feb 10, 2009
Team XBMC
Hi – long time since my last blog – I’ve been too busy with real life stuff, not to mention XBMC related activities! This post is to detail the rather boring, but very important path cleanup work that WiSo and I have just completed. As a remnant from the xbox days,...
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Translation soon available on Launchpad.

Jan 16, 2009
Team XBMC
Good news to all translators out there. rwparris2 (most of the coding) and myself (ideas and small coding) has done a conversion script that allows us to take use of the i18n format used on launchpad.net . This script is still in early beta and not open to the public...
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PulseAudio and XBMC for linux

Jan 9, 2009
Team XBMC
Since the release of Atlantis we have had dozens of new users, and a few noted one of our weaknesses, which was PulseAudio, link to thread . People usually experienced video that ran in great speed, this was because ALSA couldn´t create a stream. And the only way of...
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Vote for XBMC on Lifehacker.com

Dec 8, 2008
Team XBMC
Lifehacker.com is currently holding a voting contest of five best media center applications and XBMC is in the race for the win, so please consider taking the 30-seconds it takes to cast your vote: https://lifehacker.com/five-best-media-center-applications-5103464 Show...
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XBMC on Facebook

Nov 25, 2008
Team XBMC
Did you know that XBMC has its own official fan page on Facebook where fans around the world can show their support of XBMC Media Center software? Now you to can become a fan of XBMC on Facebook, post fan photos and videos or post a review, and tell all your friends of...
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gnitting can be fun, too!

Nov 18, 2008
Team XBMC
The first task I’ve taken up for the next release of XBMC is to clean up our build system. As it stands now, XBMC is a hassle to build on any Linux distrobution except Ubuntu. This is mostly the fault of our configure and Makefiles not conforming to expected standards...
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XBMC Live 8.10 (Atlantis) released

Nov 15, 2008
Team XBMC
The new release is out in public. It contains the following notable changes: ATI/AMD Catalyst 8.9 unified hard disk/USB flash disk installer; new in this version is the hard disk installation: - it creates three partitions on the hard disk (boot, fat32 – swap – media,...
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XBMC 8.10 Atlantis released

Nov 14, 2008
Team XBMC
Team-XBMC is proud to announce the cross-platform release of XBMC Media Center version 8.10 for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, and Xbox, code named ‘ Atlantis ‘. We have reached the end of over 3-months of bug bashing, and have closed 425...
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XBMC featured at IPTV 2.0 Conference in Rome

Oct 17, 2008
Team XBMC
On October the 15th an important conference on “The role of open standards and free software in bringing the choice of Net TV To Italians’ sofas” was held at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome, see the event page for more information (and videos!). In that context I...
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Translators needed.

Oct 17, 2008
Team XBMC
With the upcoming Atlantis release, we would like to ask for international users to help out by translating XBMC into your language or if it’s already translated, review and improve the current translation. Deadline for submitting these translations is the 25th of...
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ATVUSB-Creator under Windows: Whats the delay?

Oct 13, 2008
Team XBMC
I’ve gotten numinous queries about when atvusb-creator will get released for the Windows platform. Rest assured, it’s in progress. I thought I would take a little time to explain the difficulties. First, Windows is really a goofy platform, it has almost no command-line...
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